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Overheating is when something gets so hot it is to the point of being dangerous. An old fan that does not cool the processor fast enough might cause the processor to overheat, ruining the circuitry inside and rendering the processor useless.

I installed ubuntu 14.04.2 and my notebooks overheats really fast and sometimes hangs(freezes) - no response at all , so I just have to shutdown manually.
Here's the result of some commands I found ...

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 on a HP Elitebook 6930p.
On this laptop, the fans are constantly running. The laptop also gets quite hot. I suspected that this had something to do with the video drivers, so I ...

my computer is prone to over-heating and so I'm trying to control the fan speeds. I've researched a little and I'm blocked How to control fan speed? and then installed lm-sensorsand fan control.
I'm ...

I have HP probook 450 G2 with Ubuntu 14.10. And it has problem with heat. Immediately after Ubuntu boots up my temperature jumps to 40+°, fan goes crazy and doesn't stop. This state persist whole time ...

I just installed ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop. I'm facing overheating problem. The battery cannot last more than 2 hours and the computer is noisy. My laptop is samsung np300e 4a. Using celeron processor ...

i am usin hp430 laptop with dual boot. earlier it used to work well with windows 8. but after installing ubuntu 14.04.1, the laptop is working good in ubuntu with heats upto 90 degreeC within seconds ...

My fan just cleaned up, on Ubuntu 12, 13, 14, my ubuntu has always and constantly overheat and been noisy. About the 1st level of an air drier, constantly. Personally, it's exhausting. Socially, in ...

I have a serius problem about my GPU in my laptop. Whenever, I use my laptop to do something about graphics, the heat keep raising until hit 100 C and keep raising until my laptop suddenly turned off.
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I've just erased Windows 7 because I got so pissed off at him and decided to replace it with Ubuntu 12.04.
Im kinda new to Ubuntu and I´ve downloaded Psensor since I was feeling my notebook a little ...

I have hp pavilion g6-2312ax with amd processor and graphic card. On windows I would use "Hp Cool and Quite" to keep the temperatures and fan speed down. But in ubuntu or any other linux version, the ...

I am using ubuntu 14.04 64 bit on an Intel i3 4005u system. The 4005U has an integrated GPU. There is also a 2GB Radeon HD 8550M dedicated graphics card installed.
The problem is with installing the ...

I have dual booted Windows 8 with Ubuntu 12.04.
When I use Windows the temperature remains normal but when i use Ubuntu my laptop gets heated up and the temperature goes to 70-90 degrees C just after ...

I just installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 on my new HP Envy laptop. Prior to this, Windows 8.1 was running fine without any problems. But now on Ubuntu, my laptop shuts down abruptly and when I try to restart, ...

I have a really loud fan on my alienware x51 i3 desktop running ubuntu 14.04. I thought it was a driver issue, so changed driver from open source to a proprietary driver - but not driver changes have ...

Finally took the plunge from Ubuntu in VM to wiping Windows and installing Ubuntu 14.04. I'm liking it so far although I've noticed the laptop gets hot very quickly, the fan is constantly on, and the ...

It seems that after today's update my processor started to run hotter than usual when on casual load. It seems to go to around 50 C when playing a youtube video/browsing files/etc and on almost idle ...

I've got major problems while running Ubuntu. When I have my NVIDIA GeForce card enabled, the temperature of the processor is really high. Just a little web browsing rises it up to 70 degrees celcius ...

How to properly set up fan control on Ubuntu 14.10? I have an Asus z97 mini motherboard and while in windows even with heavy load for a long time it does not reach 70 Celsius degree, on Ubuntu easily ...

My Lenovo ThinkPad 13 01962 CS is having a particular problem (but not uncommon, it seems): It is overheating in Xubuntu, but not in Windows 7 (a heavier OS). Back in April, I sent it to local Lenovo ...

My laptop is Thinkpad-E430. I installed Ubuntu 14.04. I found it a little overheated， especially around the touchpad area. Then I launched the command "cat /proc/acpi/ibm/fan" to see whether the fan ...

I have a laptop Asus EeePC 1000H which fan is not working -- therefore the CPU can overheat to 80+ °C within 30 minutes :(.
Problem seems to be OS independent as fan is working neither under Ubuntu ...

My CPU is overheating on a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 - when idle it is at about 56-60 degrees Celsius. If I open Chrome, that brings it up to 65 degrees and even more if I use unity (80 degrees).
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*My nvidia GPU when I am playing games, in very low settings and capped FPS (25 FPS) it reaches an extraordinary 110º degrees Celsius. And of course the computer shuts down.
I use the nvidia binary ...

My laptop (Lenovo G500 Intel Celeron 1005 1.9 GHz) overheats when using Ubuntu 14.10, but does not in Windows 8. What is the problem with Ubuntu? I am worried that it will caused to damage my laptop's ...